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Apple Tree Fun & Learning for Kids

Dive in!

Celebrate summer with water fun.

Swimmer Jack Farragher and JCC employee Stephanie Zoltowski

Sink or Float?

Apple Tree Fun & Learning for Kids Apple Tree July 29, 2021, Issue 2

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ScIence Experiment: Sink or Float?

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Water Word Search

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Tissue Paper Painting

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Beat the Heat

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Five Fun Facts

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Coloring Page

Apple Tree is compiled and edited by Karen Schwartz.

Special thanks to the JCC and photographer Morgan Diehl for the cover photo of Daniel Basso, Noah Sorser and Hanna Sorser and the above photo on this page.

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ey all you scientists, try this water experiment.

Floating lets you stay at the water’s surface when you’re swimming. Take a look at what else floats!

Walk around your house and collect items you’d like to test – plastic toys, paper clips, fruit, rocks, a spoon, etc.

1. Make a list of your objects and write down for each one whether you think it’ll sink or float.

2. Fill a plastic bin or other large container with water.

3. Place one object at a time into the bin.

4. Record your results!

For each item: Did it sink or float? Did you notice anything that was the same about the objects that floated? Or the ones that sank?

Wonderful Water

Name: _________________________________________________

Wonderful Water

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Wonderful Water

THE WHY: Objects sink or float based on their density, which is determined by how close together or far apart molecules are within an item.

Some objects are more dense than water, so they sink.

Others are less dense than water, so they’ll float.

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Find the following words in the puzzle.

Find the following words in the. puzzle.

Words are hidden and

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BROOK CREEK BROOK LAKE CREEK

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RIVER STREAM RIVER

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And now, for some art ...

Tissue Paper Painting!

YOU’LL NEED:

■ Crepe paper streamers or tissue paper ■ A cup of water and a brush, or a spray bottle of water ■ White paper – card stock or something heavy if you have it

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THE STEPS: 1

Cut your streamers or tissue paper into little pieces, and then cover your paper with them.

2 Use water on your brush or the spray bottle to get the tissue papers wet.

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Stay in the know with all things Jewish...

Leave it overnight to dry.

The next day: Pull off the tissue paper and see how the paper changed colors.

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Add colors or darken the colors by doing it again.

Happy summer! Have fun!

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Beat the Heat!

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t’s hot out there. That makes it the perfect weather for grabbing your swimsuit and towel and making a splash. From the sprinklers in your own back yard to neighborhood pools, splash pads and beaches, there are plenty of ways to get soaked.

On a sizzling summer day you just might find Tamara Gussin, 9, and her sister Shoshana, 7, relaxing in their neighbor’s pool. They’ve also recently discovered Lily Pad Springs, a new water destination on Farmington Road in West Bloomfield that’s drawn some 16,500 visitors since it opened earlier this summer. The 5,500-square-foot splash pad has four water slides and a splash bucket that dumps 55 gallons of water every few minutes.

“I like the big dump bucket, because it’s ginormous and also it gets me ginormously wet,” Shoshana said.

The two love swimming. Shoshana likes to play mermaid in the pool, and both girls like to go to the beach every chance they get.

“My favorite thing about the water in the summer is that if it’s really, really, really hot it’ll cool you down,” Tamara said.

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Try these water jokes on your friends!

Q: Why did the teacher jump into the lake?

A: She wanted to test the water!

Q: What kind of water cannot freeze?

A: Hot water.

Q: What can run, but never walks?

A: A river

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Tamara and Shoshana Gussin at Lily Pad Springs.

Did You Know?

The Talmud says parents are obligated to teach their children to swim.

Ever Heard of Drip Irrigation?

5 Five Fun Water Facts

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The Great Lakes span more than 94,000 square miles, and hold some 6 quadrillion gallons of water.

— try putting a bottle of water inside the freezer and see what happens).

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Water covers about 71% of the Earth’s surface.

And the oceans? They’ve got about 96.5% of Earth’s water inside.

Water expands when it freezes (see for yourself

Since there’s the same amount of water on Earth as when it was formed, your drinking water might contain molecules dinosaurs drank.

It was developed in Israel in 1959 and has made a huge agricultural impact around the world. The system uses pipes and hoses to send water in the form of drips to farm crops’ roots. This conserves water and can increase plant yield. Pretty important for a country with limited water resources, and great news for the world.

In Michigan, you’re never more than six miles away from a body of water.

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Water Coloring Fun